maria finders

Maria has been bringing people and ideas together for over two decades, across industries and countries.Having grown up and studied art history and film in Quebec and Montreal, Canada, early on she developed an entrepreneurial edge and has created and managed dozens of initiatives, in Europe and in Switzerland. From curatorial projects in France and Greece and art criticism and reporting, to private education with the Xinis organization in Greece or building the Educart program for intelligent internships in art, with IESA Paris for the Canton of Vaud and the City of Lausanne, before devoting her efforts to the watch industry as managing editor of Europa Star Magazine. Bringing Europa Star online, in 1996, was the first of many web projects that Maria worked on as designer, webmaster and editor. In 2000, she accepted the position of International Project Manager for the Messe Basel, creating the Basel Forum, for the World Watch and Jewellery Show, the Orbit Comdex Europe Congress and management of Connecting Leaders, show managing the Content Summit and setting the foundation for A2B Architecture to Basel, International Architecture Symposium in 2002 and for ART Conversations, launched at the first edition of Art Basel Miami Beach. Today, Maria is working with the team of First Tuesday Zurich as executive producer of the Thougth Leadership Forum series. She also managers the content program for Art Basel and Art Basel Miami Beach. Parallel to these activities she is the chief advisor for a new project in Geneva, Switzerland - Flux Laboratory. Flux Laboratory's mission statement is - "Helping the Arts Help Business in the Future".